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Dannz
Dannz

Reputation: 495

Passing parameters to function: Cannot bind argument to parameter

I am receiving the following error message:

Cannot bind argument to parameter 'FilePath' because it is an empty string.

from this code:

$image = "image"
$logfile_name = "log.txt"

cleanup $image $logfile_name

function cleanup($image, $logfile) {
   log_message "message" $logfile
}

function log_message($msg, $logfile) {
    $msg | Tee-Object -Append -FilePath "$logfile"
}

I've tried with and without the quotes, what am I doing wrong?

Edit: I've tried to echo the value and it existing but when I ran it in the log_message command it says its null/empty string.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1755

Answers (1)

TobyU
TobyU

Reputation: 3918

Your code does not work for me since your not using the word "function" to create the two functions: function cleanup(..) instead of just cleanup(..) and you should put the functions before calling it in your script.

I've changed your code as follows and it works now:

function cleanup($image, $logfile) {
   log_message "message" $logfile
}

function log_message($msg, $logfile) {
    $msg | Tee-Object -Append -FilePath "$logfile"
}

$image = "image"
$logfile_name = "log.txt"

cleanup $image $logfile_name

Upvotes: 3

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